Angry Heart · Black Sabbath

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6, 10-13 and 16-19, and 5 more places -- 44.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 103 BPM
ANGRY HEART · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 35 and 69.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 6 sections: 66 keep time, 3 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-25.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Angry Heart?

103 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Angry Heart hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Angry Heart?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 35 and 69.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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